The Grave By The Lake (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Where the Great Lake's sunny smilesDimple round its hundred isles,And the mountain's granite ledgeCleaves the water like a wedge,Ringed about ...
Where the Great Lake's sunny smilesDimple round its hundred isles,And the mountain's granite ledgeCleaves the water like a wedge,Ringed about ...
Little Ella, fairest, dearest Unto me and unto mine,Earthly cherub, coming nearest Unto me and unto mine!Her brief absence frets and pains ...
IN a dream of the night I was wafted away,To the moorland of mist where the martyrs lay;Where Cameron's sword ...
Love has its secrets, joy has its revealings.How shall I speak of that which love has hid?If my beloved shall ...
Hail! infant year, fresh from the womb of Time,Cradled in clouds, what shapes and shades sublimeAttend thy birth, and hover ...
The earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of ...
ALTHOUGH its features fade in light of unimagined bliss,We have shadowy revealings of the Better World in this.A little glimpse, ...
Pour ye a wail of the wildest E'er wrung from a worn heart and mind!Tears and entreaties the mildest Are blown like ...
From Glasgow To Australia With Emigrants, 1854.Go, barque of promise, prove thy name, Not on the deck, where dead and dyingHave ...
When my heart was sad and lonely, And had closed its inmost cellOver the impulsive feelings That rule my nation's hearts too ...
AT the Poet's life-core lyingIs a sheltered and sacred nest,Where, as yet, unfledged for flying,His callow fancies rest:Fancies, and thoughts, ...
When Autumn's melancholy robes the land With silence, and sad fadings mystical Of other years move thro' the ...
I like the Anglo-Saxon speech With its direct revealings;It takes a hold, and seems to reach 'Way down into your ...
AN INVOCATION.I. HAIL Goddess of the heaven-reflecting eyes, Divine Athena! thou whose sweet breath blew The message of the Gods ...
If not the painter's nor the sculptor's skill Can give thy beauty its entitled place; Catch the revealings of that ...
When I remark her golden hair Swoon on her glorious shoulders, I marvel not that sight so rare Doth ravish ...
When cold in the earth lies the friend thou hast loved, Be his faults and his follies forgot by thee ...
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